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MTGinktober pals around with Day 25, "Buddy," starring Chandra, Fire Artisan and Zirda, the Dawnwaker!

This was one I felt could have been really great, but man, I woke up pretty late after being simply conked out from the previous two days of marathon phone banking on minimal sleep, so time was quite severely limited.  But the idea was to take on Chandra's "Go get 'em, buddies!" line from Arena, so I looked for some notable fiery elementals to accompany her, without rehashing last year's Chandra piece too much.

So a notable, recent fire-based elemental, which actually would work with her in a deck was Zirda, who hasn't seen much play, but is such a cool (and thankfully relatively simple) illustration anyway, so it was a happy inclusion.

Fun Facts: Again, trying to avoid getting to close to our previous Chandra-based MTGinkober entry, this interpretation is kind of a mix Fire Artisan and Chandra, Flame's Catalyst, with Oath of Chandra anchoring most details, as usual. 

Easter Eggs: I hid my signature in the floating mountain on the left, and the grounded mountain on the right is taken from Zirda's illustration, so this is a mix of Zendikar and Ikoria.

Not normal,

Reuxben